It’s similar to “portable” versions of software. You just run the .exe and of you go.

I have PIA and have so far been very pleased. If you are concerned about owner, maybe just go 1 year at a time, so you can pivot elsewhere if their reputation changes.

I DO get captcha on Google sometimes. But it just convinced me to switch to DDG and never looked back.

as far as I could tell/search in 15 minutes, everyone was mad when they got bought by kape, but not seeing any evidence of decline in services by PIA. I have been using them for 4 years without a single issue.

that said - I am going to buy into the Proton package for drive & email, which gives me VPN “for free”. meaning I was going to switch to ProtonVPN anyway, but from a consolidation/cost savings standpoint.

How did PIA fail? It showed a forwarded port but didn’t work, or it wouldn’t show a port?

If the latter, I had the same problem at first but it was a simple matter of changing servers. Not all their servers support it. After changing it appeared to have no issues and showed a forwarded port that I then used in qbittorrent.

no, the fire is the amazon tablet

makes cleaning those coils super easy!